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From: teroach!stan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Stan Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore De-interlacer
Keywords: In article <1990Oct23.091814.17000@isis.cs.du.edu> bscott@isis.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes:
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Date: 23 Oct 90 23:35:12 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.035558.9158@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <1990Oct23.091814.17000@isis.cs.du.edu>
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Summary:

>
>I have had a spec sheet on this for a few weeks.  I haven't heard anything
>about it from anywhere else, including here, which seems odd.  And I don't
>know anything about availability or price.  I just picked it up at a store.
>But from the specs it seems to be just an Amber chip on a card for the 2000.
>
>Well, it says on my sheet that it does live in the video slot and I can't
>see any kind of passthrough (though how they'd do it I can't imagine) in
>the photo.
>
>If anyone needs full info on this I guess I could be persuaded to mail or
>even post the specs from the sheet but basically they pretty much match
>the specs for the Amber chip on the 3000.
>


This being the second posting to substantiate the existance of a
de-interlacer from Commodore has gotten my appetite really wetted for this
thing!!  I checked my local dealer and he basically says "uhh... yeah.. maybe
by 3rd Quarter '91... uh they might have something.. uuh.. we haven't been
notified yet of it's existance."  

What's the deal?  Is this a product?  Can I buy it?  When/where?

I sure hope so!  This would put the competition into the flicker fixer
market.  At Ami-expo I saw a couple of flicker-fixer's competition boards
coming out by a couple of different companies but they were pricing theirs
right up there with MicroWays board.  If this board comes out for $295
list,  then I tip my hat to Commodore. 

Can someone at Commodore please comment?

  Stan Fisher -  stan@teroach.phx.mcd.mot.com  -  asuvax!mcdphx!teroach!stan
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